21st century demands more solar, wind power

Stephen H. Cohn’s letter in last Sunday’s paper regarding the environment and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar deserves a reply. Cohn writes, “Wind and solar-generated power make up a small percentage of the total electricity production in our country.” This is precisely what is wrong. We do not need investment in nuclear energy, which cannot secure investment from the business community. We do not need more coal drilling, which will continue adding to the global warming problem.

Thank goodness that Secretary Salazar is blocking drilling on federal lands. Technology is finding ways of storing solar and wind power. That is what we need more of for the 21st century.

Susan A. Schiller, Denver

This letter was published in the Feb. 7 edition. For information on how to send a letter to the editor, click here[2].

What nonsense! Ms. Schiller apparently chooses to be unaware that the “global warming crisis” is falling apart, following disclosure in November of emails and documents among the chief climate fraudsters. Here's one from a local snake-oil salesman, Kevin Trenberth of NCAR:”We are not close to balancing the energy budget. The fact that we can not account for what is happening in the climate system makes any consideration of geoengineering quite hopeless as we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not! It is a travesty!” The geoengineering Trenberth refers to is, first and foremost, the attempt by fanatics like Salazar and Schiller to substitute expensive, unreliable, heavily subsidized solar and wind power for real generating capability. Nuclear power generation “cannot secure investment from the business community”? More nonsense. Westinghouse is investing strongly. In the meantime, GE (owner of the greenie NBC network), which had expected to profit hugely from carbon trading and selling wind turbines, has seen its stock price drop from $40 to $15. And the price of “carbon credits” has gone to pennies.Well said, Mr. Cohn.Richard SavageFranktown

#2 Comment By luckyleif On February 7, 2010 @ 6:21 pm

What nonsense! Ms. Schiller apparently chooses to be unaware that the “global warming crisis” is falling apart, following disclosure in November of emails and documents among the chief climate fraudsters. Here's one from a local snake-oil salesman, Kevin Trenberth of NCAR:”We are not close to balancing the energy budget. The fact that we can not account for what is happening in the climate system makes any consideration of geoengineering quite hopeless as we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not! It is a travesty!” The geoengineering Trenberth refers to is, first and foremost, the attempt by fanatics like Salazar and Schiller to substitute expensive, unreliable, heavily subsidized solar and wind power for real generating capability. Nuclear power generation “cannot secure investment from the business community”? More nonsense. Westinghouse is investing strongly. In the meantime, GE (owner of the greenie NBC network), which had expected to profit hugely from carbon trading and selling wind turbines, has seen its stock price drop from $40 to $15. And the price of “carbon credits” has gone to pennies.Well said, Mr. Cohn.Richard SavageFranktown